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Cliff Sarginson wrote:
Well I don;t use 7.3, but I do use kernel 2.4.12 with apm, and halt does not halt the system anymore.
Ah! In that case SuSE will probably know about it by now. I've not called support yet. OTOH, presumably this should have been spotted during testing?
But I have no problems with the ATX power off (what you call the soft power off I guess) or with printer spewing.
Not sure of the acronyms, but the power button on the front of the machine clearly isn't connected to the power supply like a "switch". Pressing it has no affect (switching off at the wall does :). The printer behaviour was a real surprise!
7.3 uses kernel 2.4.10 I believe, so our problems may or may not be related. However 2.4.12 was an emergency release because 2.4.11 was a disaster, so I should not think 10/12 are that much different.
Which does not help you at all ! Sorry, I would like a solution as well.
It's been reassuring though, thanks. Have you tried using the "real mode" apm flag? Apparently you can say "apm=real-mode-poweroff" as a kernel flag which works round bugs in some BIOS's apm implementations - I think my BIOS is OK, but it might work (for both of us). Cheers, -nick